New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study

The NZAVS was started in 2009, and follows the same group of roughly 6000 New Zealanders each year. The NZAVS aims to track changes in various social psychological and health factors for up to the next 20 years. The study aims to provide information about how the personality, attitudes and values of New Zealanders may be changing over time. This is important because we currently know very little about how peoples’ opinions, values and levels of satisfaction with their lives may change gradually over time, and perhaps also change rapidly in response to current events in society. Another key aim of the study is to examine how changes in attitudes and values may relate to changes in health and wellbeing over time.

The 2011 NZAVS questionnaire is now available online.

Complete the questionnaire online

A paper version of the questionniare will be posted to study participants later in 2011.

Please feel free to email Dr Chris Sibley for more details about the project:
Email: c.sibley@auckland.ac.nz

Suggest a question you would like answered from the NZAVS data
Do you have another question about attitudes and values in New Zealand that the NZAVS may be able to answer? You can suggest a question that you would like to know more about using the NZAVS data. The NZAVS team will present analyses of the data answering as many as possible of the most popular questions that people raise, and will update the website with new questions answered from the dataset regularly. Please make your questions as specific as you can.

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• Dr Chris Sibley, Department of Psychology, The University of Auckland
• Prof. John Duckitt, Department of Psychology, The University Auckland
• Associate Prof. Marc Wilson, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington
• Dr Nickola Overall, Department of Psychology, The University of Auckland
• Dr Kristin Connor, Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland
• Dr William Hoverd, DFAIT Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa
• Dr Carla Houkamau, Management and International Business, The University of Auckland
• Dr Fiona Kate Barlow, School of Psychology, University of Queensland
• Dr Frank Asbrock, Department of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Prof James Liu, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington
• Prof Colleen Ward, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington
• Dr James Russell, School of Biological Sciences and Department of Statistics, The University of Auckland
• Associate Prof. Niki Harré, Department of Psychology, The University of Auckland
• Ryan Perry, Department of Psychology, The University of Auckland
• Jessica Harding, Department of Psychology, New York University
• Dr Leong Chan-Hoong, Research Fellow, Singapore Institute of Policy Studies
• Dr Lianne McLellan, Defence Scientist, Defence Research and Development Canada